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une sainte extase Elle pria
Le soir du second jour nous touchâmes sa base: Là, tombant à genoux dans une sainte extase, Elle pria longtemps, puis vers l’antre inconnu, Dénouant sa chaussure, elle marcha pied nu.
— from The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray

United States Exploring Expedition p
[76] 'Crustacea: United States Exploring Expedition,' p. 1476 (corrected).
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

U S Exploring Expedition Philadelphia
Wilkes, U. S. Exploring Expedition (Philadelphia, 1845), vol. i. p. 331.
— from The Evolution of Culture, and Other Essays by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers

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[54] Mr. Dana, moreover, has remarked, ('Crustacea: United States Exploring Expedition,' p. 1386), "that he knows of no instance of a mandible becoming so completely a leg, as to lose wholly the mandibular function even of its basal portion."
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

utrumque salvum est et participatio
Accepto corpore Domini et reservato, utrumque salvum est, et participatio sacrificii, et executio officii.
— from The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

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[59] 'Crustacea: United States Exploring Expedition,' p. 22.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

United States Exploring Expedition Philadelphia
Wilkes, United States Exploring Expedition (Philadelphia, 1845), vol.
— from The Evolution of Culture, and Other Essays by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers

United States Exploring Expedition Philadelphia
Wilkes, United States Exploring Expedition (Philadelphia, 1845), vol. i. pp.
— from The Evolution of Culture, and Other Essays by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers

U S Exploring Expedition Philadelphia
Wilkes, U. S. Exploring Expedition (Philadelphia, 1845), vol.
— from The Evolution of Culture, and Other Essays by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers


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